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School House, The Street, Lympne, Hythe, CT21 4LQ

23/1239/FHWorks to Trees covered by a TPOApproved

Approved on 24 October 2023

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Works to trees the subject of TPO No 01 of 1959 - Ash remedial work to remove broken or diseased branches and to remove low-hanging branches

Received
3 August 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Hythe Rural
  1. Received3 Aug
  2. Validated7 Sep
  3. Consult.20 Oct
  4. Target20 Oct
  5. Decided24 Oct

Decided in 47 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at School House, The Street, Lympne, Hythe, CT21 4LQ. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 911 applications of this type. This one was decided in 82 days, 5 weeks longer than Folkestone and Hythe's typical decision time. The site is in the Lympne conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 62 applications across Hythe Rural. We hold 1,106 applications in total for the CT21 postcode area.

94% of trees applications at Folkestone and Hythe District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CT21 4LQ
Application type
Works to Trees covered by a TPO
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lympne

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 September 2023
Consultation expiry
20 October 2023
Consultation end
20 October 2023
Target decision date
20 October 2023
Application expires
2 November 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Lympne

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (6)

listed buildings, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens and SSSIs.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Folkestone and Hythe

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